Africa

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  • China's deadly Darfur games

    Slick P.R. moves around the '08 Olympics can't hide the fact that China is still complicit in the Darfur genocide.
  • Fighting AIDS with abstinence

    Bush's plan for AIDS relief in Africa: Promote condoms for "high-risk" groups, ignore transmission within marriage.
  • Joe Biden lets it all hang out

    In Iowa, the long-shot candidate stuck with his blunt, freewheeling style, and warned of the dire mess in Iraq facing the next American president.
  • Rachel Carson's birthday bashing

    The right has revved up its claim that the environmental pioneer who criticized DDT was responsible for the spread of malaria that killed millions. The facts say otherwise.
  • The destiny of bad geography

    The slave trade sent some Africans running for the hills. Where they got a little stuck.
  • My hapless African rebel

    A funny thing happened on my way to civil war in Ethiopia -- I met Reagan, and I would never see guerrilla rebels the same way again.
  • Bollywood in Africa -- Is it getting too Western?

    China isn't the only former victim of colonialism asserting itself in Africa. India's also on the move.
  • Ending "the world's hottest war"

    Can a citizens movement enlisting the likes of George Clooney, Angelina Jolie and Don Cheadle finally stop the genocide in Darfur?
  • Milk money

    How one American mom's desire to donate breast milk to African orphans, with a little help from Oprah, stirred up a milk bank mess.
  • Real bodies of research

    What do AIDS researchers owe their poor, at-risk subjects?
  • Can Africa be more like China?

    To achieve lasting prosperity African nations will have to compete with what East Asia does best, and not just feed its maw with raw materials.
  • Women's rights latest ammo against AIDS

    Researchers say improving women's lot will stem the virus' spread in Africa.
  • Ask the Pilot

    What caused the Kenya Airlines 737 to nose-dive just after takeoff, killing all aboard? We still don't know -- and neither does the press.
  • The invisible AIDS cure

    Western do-gooders may want to help Africa stop the AIDS epidemic. But Helen Epstein's new book shows the most effective solutions are often the continent's own.
  • Blood for oil in the Horn of Africa

    First the U.S., then the Soviets, explored for oil in eastern Ethiopia. Now the Chinese are there, and paying dearly for it.
  • Circumcision cuts men's HIV risk but raises women's?

    A new study says maybe, maybe not.
  • China in Africa: Not playing fair?

    Western mining companies complain to Mommy about China's bad behavior.
  • What Oprah can't forget

    Critics of her sanctuary for South African girls be damned -- the media mogul's generosity is beyond reproach. But her PR gaffes around the school's opening revealed the scars of her own impoverished past.
  • "Wizard of the Crow"

    The Kenyan author explores his experience with dictatorships in an interview and excerpt from his novel.
  • Ask the pilot

    It's nonstop to Africa for the first time in 15 years. Why should we care?
  • Secret cutting

    A highly publicized criminal cruelty case shines the spotlight on female genital mutilation in the U.S.
  • What else we're reading

    Legal abortion celebrates a birthday in Britain. Plus: Legendary drummer Sandy West dies, Jessica Valenti on "Boobgate" and more.
  • Don't justify my love

    Madonna will soon find out it's tough enough to be an adoptive parent without being accused of "baby buying."
  • Great expectations

    It may be naive, but Bill Clinton's initiative to solve the planet's biggest problems is raising the prospect of a world where America can lead again.
  • Maternal death in Africa

    One in 20 African women dies in childbirth. Broadsheet hero Nicholas Kristof calls attention to the crisis.
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